SILVER AGE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

silver age

noun

Definition of silver age

as in millennium

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dark age

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. — Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals. — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017

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Noun

As Taiwan races toward the new millennium, its hunger for progress propels the boy forward, Yen says, while the uncle never gets that option.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Few institutions have managed to keep a medieval ceremony alive for nearly a millennium while completely transforming its meaning.

— Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

In this golden age of cringe, that earlier art of transgression—with its tense silences, humiliations, and hostile disturbance of the performer-audience relationship—was channeled downstream.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The golden age of detective fiction is generally considered to have been in the 1920s and ’30s.

— New York Times, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

Thousands carrying white flowers lined the roads in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday as the remains of 731 people believed to have been killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive were taken for burial nearly six decades after their deaths.

— Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Castle Town bustled more than ever, teeming with banners, flowers and colorful citizenry.

— James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of flower

Noun

And back in the heyday of Fred Bear and other pioneers of modern bowhunting, climbing a tree to hunt from a stand was hardly a common practice.

— Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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